Fredrik Ullen

Pianist Fredrik Ullén specializes in the works of Kaikhosru Sorabji and other composers whose music requires an extreme degree of virtuoso technique. In addition to performing, Ullén is a professor of neuroscience at Sweden's Karolinska Institute. Ullén was born on April 13, 1968, in Västerås, Sweden. He attended the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, studying with Gunnar Hallhagen and Irène Mannheimer, and graduating in 1993. Ullén went on for further studies in Germany and Finland; the latter course was with pianist Liisa Pohjola, whom Ullén has cited as an important infl...